STATE v. COFFIN

No. 92-1339.

504 N.W.2d 893 (1993)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Oliver Randall COFFIN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 25, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Robert P. Ewald, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Diann Wilder-Tomlinson, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


LAVORATO, Justice.

Is extortion a lesser included offense of second-degree robbery? We hold that it is not and affirm the defendant's conviction.

On the evening of February 23, 1992, Oliver Randall Coffin went to the Kum and Go convenience store in Marshalltown. He left after buying some lottery tickets. He came back a short time later to cash in the winning tickets and play the pinball machine.

Eventually Coffin was alone in the store with the clerk...

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